[Fwd: curiousity with hist]
just realized that the bin value is actually the relative frequency divided by the bin width. sorry for consuming band width. Alas, is there anyway to make hist() calculate relative frequencies irrespective of bin width? thanks
Murad Nayal wrote:
Hello, I am rather new to R. in trying to use the hist() command I get behavior that is somewhat puzzling me, in short, for a vector 'data' of about 2000 elements ranging from -1,1 I do: hist(data,probability=TRUE) I get a histogram with the y axis ranging from 0.0 -> 6.0 at the highest bin. This bin's relative frequency should be 0.6. this bin's raw count is 1200 (out of about 2000 observations in the vector 'data'). so this 6 is not the raw count, probability=relative frequency or percentage. What is it? I get the raw counts plotted correctly if I do a hist(data) any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated thanks Murad
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